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Science Fiction
87 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Adrian Tchaikovsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Adrian Tchaikovsky — whether to begin with Children of Time or Children of Ruin. A complete reading guide to the British science fiction author.
Where to Start with Arkady Strugatsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arkady Strugatsky — how to approach Roadside Picnic, the Soviet SF classic written with Boris Strugatsky. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Benjamín Labatut: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Benjamín Labatut — whether to begin with When We Cease to Understand the World or MANIAC. A complete reading guide to the Chilean author.
Where to Start with Blake Crouch: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Blake Crouch — whether to begin with Dark Matter, Recursion, or the Wayward Pines trilogy. A complete reading guide to the sci-fi thriller author.
Where to Start with Christina Dalcher: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christina Dalcher — how to approach Vox, her feminist dystopia about a near-future America where women are restricted to 100 words per day. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Daniel Keyes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Keyes — how to approach Flowers for Algernon, his essential novel about intelligence, identity and what it means to be human. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ernest Cline: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ernest Cline — how to approach Ready Player One, his propulsive science fiction adventure set in a virtual reality dystopia, saturated with 1980s pop culture and driven by a relentless treasure hunt plot. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gene Wolfe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gene Wolfe — how to approach The Book of the New Sun, his dying-Earth masterwork with the most sophisticated unreliable narrator in science fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with H.G. Wells: A Reading Guide
Where to start with H.G. Wells — how to approach The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and his other scientific romances. A complete reading guide to the father of science fiction.
Where to Start with Iain M. Banks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Iain M. Banks — how to approach the Culture series, his post-scarcity space opera sequence, and The Wasp Factory, his non-SF literary novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James S.A. Corey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James S.A. Corey — how to approach Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel and the best entry point into the most politically sophisticated science fiction series of the century. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Joe Haldeman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joe Haldeman — whether to begin with The Forever War, Forever Peace, or The Accidental Time Machine. A complete guide to the Hugo-winning SF author.
Where to Start with John Scalzi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Scalzi — whether to begin with Old Man's War or The Ghost Brigades. A complete reading guide to the Hugo Award-winning science fiction author.
Where to Start with Jules Verne: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jules Verne — whether to begin with Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues, or Journey to the Center of the Earth. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Madeleine L'Engle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Madeleine L'Engle — whether to begin with A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, or A Swiftly Tilting Planet. A complete guide to the Time Quintet.
Where to Start with Mary Shelley: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Shelley — whether to begin with Frankenstein, The Last Man, or Mathilda. A complete reading guide to the inventor of science fiction.
Where to Start with Peter Watts: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Watts — how to approach Blindsight, his landmark hard SF novel that uses a first-contact scenario to question whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary advantage. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Philip Reeve: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Philip Reeve — how to approach Mortal Engines, his visionary debut fantasy about a post-apocalyptic world of predatory mobile cities, a junior historian thrown from London, and the ancient weapon that could destroy them all. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor — how to approach Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, their funny and quietly devastating expansion of the beloved sitcom about the last human alive, three million years into a future without anyone else. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Tahereh Mafi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tahereh Mafi — whether to begin with Shatter Me or jump into the series. A complete reading guide to the Shatter Me series author.
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